# Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 23, 2019, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497 "2019-01-23T23:05:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sahil\_ahmed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@sahil\_ahmed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sahil_ahmed)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/1 "2019-01-23T23:05:05Z")
I get this error when i tried to run elasticsearch. Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /home/supportdev/elasticsearch-6.5.4/config/jvm.options at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:84) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107) at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:214) at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:361) at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:407) at java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newInputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:384) at java.nio.file.Files.newInputStream(Files.java:152) at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.main(JvmOptionsParser.java:60) Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![sahil\_ahmed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@sahil\_ahmed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sahil_ahmed)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/2 "2019-01-28T23:29:50Z")
Chown worked!! ---
**Author:** ![Aadil672](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@Aadil672](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aadil672)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/3 "2019-02-04T21:31:41Z")
@sahil_ahmed please tell me the solution, do I need to update something in jvm.options file? ---
**Author:** ![Aadil672](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@Aadil672](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aadil672)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/4 "2019-02-04T21:46:48Z")
here is the error while running elasticsearch server... [aadil@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0]$ ./bin/elasticsearch Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /home/aadil/Downloads/Elastic\_Stack/elasticsearch-6.6.0/config/jvm.options at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:84) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107) at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:214) at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:361) at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:407) at java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newInputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:384) at java.nio.file.Files.newInputStream(Files.java:152) at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.main(JvmOptionsParser.java:60) ---
**Author:** ![sahil\_ahmed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@sahil\_ahmed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sahil_ahmed)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/5 "2019-02-04T22:14:28Z")
@Aadil672 try changing the ownership of the file by using the command "chown" ---
**Author:** ![Aadil672](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@Aadil672](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aadil672)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/6 "2019-02-04T22:41:59Z")
@sahil_ahmed bhai plz full command, as I have myself and root users in Redhat. ---
**Author:** ![sahil\_ahmed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@sahil\_ahmed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sahil_ahmed)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/7 "2019-02-04T23:02:10Z")
chown "username" "filename" ---
**Author:** ![Aadil672](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@Aadil672](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aadil672)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/8 "2019-02-04T23:06:14Z")
nothing worked ☹ [aadil@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0] chown aadil ./bin/elasticsearch chown: changing ownership of ‘./bin/elasticsearch’: Operation not permitted [aadil@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0] chown chown: missing operand Try 'chown --help' for more information. [aadil@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0] chown aadil ./config/jvm.options chown: changing ownership of ‘./config/jvm.options’: Operation not permitted [aadil@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0] chown aadil ./bin/elasticsearch chown: changing ownership of ‘./bin/elasticsearch’: Operation not permitted [aadil@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0] cd .. [aadil@oc4733723867 Elastic\_Stack] chown aadil elasticsearch-6.6.0 chown: changing ownership of ‘elasticsearch-6.6.0’: Operation not permitted ---
**Author:** ![sahil\_ahmed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@sahil\_ahmed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sahil_ahmed)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 11:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/9 "2019-02-04T23:09:27Z")
chown aadil elasticsearch-6.6.0 ---
**Author:** ![Aadil672](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@Aadil672](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aadil672)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/10 "2019-02-04T23:10:01Z")
[aadil@oc4733723867 Elastic\_Stack]$ chown aadil elasticsearch-6.6.0 chown: changing ownership of ‘elasticsearch-6.6.0’: Operation not permitted ---
**Author:** ![sahil\_ahmed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@sahil\_ahmed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sahil_ahmed)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 11:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/11 "2019-02-04T23:12:41Z")
sudo su and then try it ---
**Author:** ![Aadil672](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@Aadil672](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aadil672)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/12 "2019-02-04T23:13:34Z")
will try but I dont think It will work because it says, we can not perform on root users [aadil@oc4733723867 Elastic\_Stack]$ sudo su [sudo] password for aadil: [root@oc4733723867 Elastic\_Stack]# chown aadil elasticsearch-6.6.0 [root@oc4733723867 Elastic\_Stack]# cd elasticsearch-6.6.0/ [root@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0]# ./bin/elasticsearch Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: INFO: os::commit\_memory(0x00000000d4cc0000, 724828160, 0) failed; error='Cannot allocate memory' (errno=12) # # There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue. # Native memory allocation (mmap) failed to map 724828160 bytes for committing reserved memory. # An error report file with more information is saved as: # logs/hs\_err\_pid27624.log [root@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0]# ---
**Author:** ![Aadil672](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@Aadil672](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aadil672)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/13 "2019-02-13T11:41:59Z")
## @sahil_ahmed bhai, I gave permission (chown "username" "filename"). I tried all the way, Could you please help to get fix this issue. 🙂 [aadil@oc4733723867 ~] cd Downloads/ [aadil@oc4733723867 Downloads] cd Elastic\_Stack/ [aadil@oc4733723867 Elastic\_Stack] cd elasticsearch-6.6.0/ [aadil@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0] ls bin config lib LICENSE.txt logs modules NOTICE.txt plugins README.textile [aadil@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0] ./bin/elasticsearch Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /home/aadil/Downloads/Elastic\_Stack/elasticsearch-6.6.0/config/jvm.options at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:84) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107) at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:214) at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:361) at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:407) at java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newInputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:384) at java.nio.file.Files.newInputStream(Files.java:152) at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.main(JvmOptionsParser.java:60) [aadil@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0] cd .. [aadil@oc4733723867 Elastic\_Stack] chown chown: missing operand Try 'chown --help' for more information. [aadil@oc4733723867 Elastic\_Stack] chown aadil elasticsearch-6.6.0 [aadil@oc4733723867 Elastic\_Stack] cd elasticsearch-6.6.0/ [aadil@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0] ./bin/elasticsearch Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /home/aadil/Downloads/Elastic\_Stack/elasticsearch-6.6.0/config/jvm.options at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:84) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107) at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:214) at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:361) at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:407) at java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newInputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:384) at java.nio.file.Files.newInputStream(Files.java:152) at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.main(JvmOptionsParser.java:60) [aadil@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0]$ sudo su [sudo] password for aadil: [root@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0]# ./bin/elasticsearch [2019-02-13T17:08:47,817][WARN][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [unknown] uncaught exception in thread [main] org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:163) ~[elasticsearch-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:150) ~[elasticsearch-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0] at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) ~[elasticsearch-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124) ~[elasticsearch-cli-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-cli-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:116) ~[elasticsearch-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:93) ~[elasticsearch-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0] Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.initializeNatives(Bootstrap.java:103) ~[elasticsearch-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:170) ~[elasticsearch-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:333) ~[elasticsearch-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:159) ~[elasticsearch-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0] ... 6 more [root@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0]# ---
**Author:** ![Aadil672](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@Aadil672](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aadil672)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/14 "2019-02-13T11:47:29Z")
Can I get in touch with you - my number: 7829191078 ---
**Author:** ![sahil\_ahmed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@sahil\_ahmed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sahil_ahmed)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/15 "2019-02-13T15:22:44Z")
try ls -l /path/to/the/file and see the user of the file @Aadil672 ---
**Author:** ![Aadil672](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@Aadil672](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aadil672)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/16 "2019-02-13T16:48:55Z")
all are root user, please connect me over the call if possible - 7829191078 [root@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0]# ls -l total 448 drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Feb 4 03:01 bin drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 02:11 config drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Jan 24 16:59 lib -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 13675 Jan 24 16:54 LICENSE.txt drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Feb 13 17:08 logs drwxr-xr-x. 29 root root 4096 Jan 24 16:59 modules -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 403816 Jan 24 16:59 NOTICE.txt drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jan 24 16:59 plugins -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8519 Jan 24 16:54 README.textile [root@oc4733723867 elasticsearch-6.6.0]# cd bin/ [root@oc4733723867 bin]# ls -l total 18504 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1777 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1534 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 491 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-certgen -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 586 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-certgen.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 483 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-certutil -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 578 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-certutil.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 766 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch-cli -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 614 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch-cli.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 433 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-croneval -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 528 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-croneval.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2153 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch-env -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1897 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch-env.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 121 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch-keystore -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 224 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch-keystore.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 440 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-migrate -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 535 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-migrate.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 172 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch-plugin -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 276 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch-plugin.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 431 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-saml-metadata -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 526 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-saml-metadata.bat -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 7524 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch-service.bat -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 118184 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch-service-mgr.exe -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 114600 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch-service-x64.exe -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 438 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-setup-passwords -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 533 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-setup-passwords.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 118 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch-shard -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 221 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch-shard.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 427 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-sql-cli -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 18546213 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-sql-cli-6.6.0.jar -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 628 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-sql-cli.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 426 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-syskeygen -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 521 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-syskeygen.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 124 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch-translog -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 227 Jan 24 16:54 elasticsearch-translog.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 426 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-users -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 521 Jan 24 16:59 elasticsearch-users.bat drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jan 24 16:59 x-pack -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 306 Jan 24 16:59 x-pack-env -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 303 Jan 24 16:59 x-pack-env.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 354 Jan 24 16:59 x-pack-security-env -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 307 Jan 24 16:59 x-pack-security-env.bat -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 353 Jan 24 16:59 x-pack-watcher-env -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 306 Jan 24 16:59 x-pack-watcher-env.bat ---
**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/17 "2019-02-13T23:01:56Z")
Here's what you need to do, at a high level: - Decide which user (not `root`) is going to run your Elasticsearch process. It looks like you are using `aadil` - Make sure all the necessary files are owned by that user - Run the process as that user To do this, in your case: 1. login as `aadil` 2. `cd Downloads/elasticsearch-6.6.0/` 3. `sudo chown -R aadil .` 4. `./bin/elasticsearch` ---
**Author:** ![Aadil672](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@Aadil672](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aadil672)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/18 "2019-02-17T14:40:57Z")
Hi TimV, Hope you are doing well! Thanks a lot for your effort, It worked for me, I am able to run \*\*elasticsearch (./bin/elasticsearch) \*\*server. but again I got an error (node js incompatibility) while trying to run **kibana** (./bin/kibana). Could you please help me to get back to older version of Node js in RedHat 7.5 ? Thanks in advance! [aadil@oc4733723867 ~]$ cd Downloads/ [aadil@oc4733723867 Downloads]$ cd Elastic\_Stack/ [aadil@oc4733723867 Elastic\_Stack]$ cd kibana-6.6.0-linux-x86\_64/ [aadil@oc4733723867 kibana-6.6.0-linux-x86\_64]$ ls bin data LICENSE.txt NOTICE.txt package.json README.txt target config dlls node\_modules optimize plugins src webpackShims [aadil@oc4733723867 kibana-6.6.0-linux-x86\_64]$ ./bin/kibana Kibana does not support the current Node.js version v11.9.0. Please use Node.js v10.14.1. [aadil@oc4733723867 kibana-6.6.0-linux-x86\_64]$ Thanks, Aadil Hussain Learner! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-in-thread-main-java-nio-file-accessdeniedexception/165497/19 "2019-03-17T14:40:57Z")
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